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Series: Shortcomings Paperback Adrian Tomine 9781897299753 $18.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 28, 2009

The 2007 New York Times Book Review Notable Book now in paperbackLauded for its provocative and insightful portrayal of interpersonal relationships, Adrian Tomine's politically charged Shortcomings was one of the most acclaimed books of 2007. Among many interviews and reviews in outlets around the country, Tomine was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air and also in The Believer, New York magazine, and Giant Robot. Shortcomings landed on countless "best of" lists, including those in Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times; was prais... + Read More
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Series: A Drifting Life Paperback Yoshihiro Tatsumi 9781897299746 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 14, 2009

The epic autobiography of a manga masterAcclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by t... + Read More
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Series: Kaspar Paperback Diane Obomsawin 9781897299678 $15.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 03, 2009

A sad and cautionary tale of mystery, fame, murder, and innocenceMay 28, 1828, marked the beginning of the official life of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared mysteriously in the streets of Nuremberg and died of knife wounds five years later under equally mysterious circumstances. "Europe's child," as pamphleteers referred to him, captured the imagination of salon society. Allegedly raised in a dark cellar and deprived of human contact until the age of sixteen, he became the proof of a concept for theories about natural man, original sin, ... + Read More
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Series: Picture This The Near-sighted Monkey Book Hardcover Lynda Barry 9781897299647 $31.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 09, 2010

The creative-drawing companion to the acclaimed and bestselling What It IsLynda Barry single-handedly created a literary genre all her own, the graphic memoir/how-to, otherwise known as the bestselling, the acclaimed, but most important, the adored and the inspirational What It Is. The R. R. Donnelley and Eisner Award–winning book posed, explored, and answered the question: "Do you wish you could write?" Now with Picture This, Barry asks: "Do you wish you could draw?" It features the return of Barry's most beloved character, Marlys, and introdu... + Read More
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Series: Cecil and Jordan in New York Stories by Gabrielle Bell Hardcover Gabrielle Bell 9781897299579 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 17, 2009

Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original Cecil and Jordan in New YorkGabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This collection represents her short comics work that has been published in various anthologies over the past five years, including Kramer's Ergot, Mome, and The D+Q Showcase Book Four. The surrealist title story, in which a young woman turns herself into a ... + Read More
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Series: Moomin Moomin Book Three The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Hardcover Tove Jansson 9781897299555 $27.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 5 Sep 30, 2008

Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson's observations of everyday life-whimsical but with biting undertones-easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.This third volume returns to Moominvalley, where its beloved inhabitants get tangled up in five new stories. Moomin falls in love... + Read More
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Series: Jamilti and Other Stories Hardcover Rutu Modan 9781897299548 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 30, 2008

Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds-a tale at once mystery and romance-introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly's "best of" lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects the cartoonist's short works, which lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual character portraits. Some are darkly fantastical and unsettling, such as the unraveling of a serial-killer murder mystery, or her accounts of an infatuated plastic surgeo... + Read More
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Series: Berlin Berlin Book Two City of Smoke Paperback Jason Lutes 9781897299531 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 16, 2008

The second installment of the epic historical trilogyThe second volume of Jason Lutes's historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American jazz band Cocoa Kids arrives and quickly becomes a... + Read More
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Series: The Collected Doug Wright: Volume One Canada's Master Cartoonist Hardcover Doug Wright 9781897299524 $39.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 12, 2009

A career-spanning retrospective of one of the masters of North American cartooningThe first of a historic two-volume set, The Collected Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist presents the first-ever comprehensive look at the life and career of one of the most-read and best-loved cartoonists of the 1960s. Compiled in cooperation with Doug Wright's family, it draws from thousands of pieces of art, pictures, letters, and the artist's own journals to provide a fully rounded view of Wright, both as a cartoonist and as an individual.Volume One follo... + Read More
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Series: George Sprott (1894-1975) Hardcover Seth 9781897299517 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 26, 2009

First serialized in The New York Times Magazine "Funny Pages"The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker illustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott, the host of a long-running television program. The events forming the patchwork of George's life are pieced together from the tenuous memories of several informants, who often have contradictory impressions. His estranged daughter describes the man as an unforgivable lout, whereas his niece remembers him fondly. His former assistant recalls a trip to the Arctic during which George aba... + Read More
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Series: Petits Livres Fire Away Paperback Chris von Szombathy 9781897299494 $12.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 05, 2008
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Series: 32 Stories The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics Hardcover Adrian Tomine 9781897299760 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 12, 2009

The comics that first launched Tomine into his luminary career, in a special-edition box setRedesigned to coincide with the release of Shortcomings in paperback is a brand-new edition of Adrian Tomine's first book, 32 Stories, that collects his inaugural mini-comics in a special edition. This onetime printing includes facsimile reprints of the seven mini-comics packaged in a slipcase, as well as an additional pamphlet containing a new introduction and notes by Tomine.
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Series: Market Day Hardcover James Sturm 9781897299975 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 30, 2010

A TIMELESS MEDITATION ON ART AND COMMERCE SEEN THROUGH THE LIFE OF AN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH RUG MAKERMendleman's life goes through an upheaval when he discovers that he can no longer earn a living for his growing family doing the work that defines him—making well-crafted rugs by hand. A proud artisan, he takes his donkey-drawn cart to the market only to be turned away when the distinctive shop he once sold to now stocks only cheaply manufactured merchandise. As the realities of the marketplace sink in, Mendleman unravels. James Sturm d... + Read More
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Series: Catland Empire Paperback Keith Jones 9781897299920 $32.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 08, 2010

Philip K. Dick comes to Saturday Morning TVCatland Empire by Keith Jones is a graphic novel that is a melding of a Philip K. Dick novel and a Saturday morning cartoon. There will exist a future world where "human beings have become empty husks stripped of all memory when it comes to things like how to have fun and play games," or so says Mr. Space to his associate Mr. Time. The solution? Get the cats to teach humans how to have fun again. This is all the Cat People do with their lives. They are the fun and game masters.What follows is a tangled... + Read More
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Series: The Fixer and Other Stories Paperback Joe Sacco 9781897299906 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 27, 2009

THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF PALESTINE AND SAFE AREA GORAÅ½DEUsing old-fashioned pen and paper, the award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. The Fixer and Other Stories is a new softcover that collects Sacco's landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that previously comprised the hardcover editions of The Fixer and War's End.
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Series: The Klondike Paperback Zach Worton 9781897299876 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 10, 2011

THE HISTORY OF THE GOLD RUSH BROUGH TO LIFEThe Klondike gold rush shook the Yukon on the eve of the twentieth century and stands today as the defining era in the taming of North America and especially Canada's Great North. The history of how a handful of colorful characters sparked the largest mobilization of gold seekers in history is brought vividly to life in this debut graphic novel by the cartoonist Zach Worton. His stunning depictions of the Canadian wilderness are as much a part of the action as the key players: the prospector George Car... + Read More
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Series: Masterpiece Comics Hardcover R. Sikoryak 9781897299845 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2009

HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC COMICSMasterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In "Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray i... + Read More
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Series: Exit Wounds Paperback Noah Stollman 9781897299838 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 23, 2008

Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man,Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself piecing together not only the last few months of his father's life but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious water... + Read More
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Series: Aya Aya: The Secrets Come Out Volume Three Hardcover Marguerite Abouet 9781897299791 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 29, 2009

Aya has captured the hearts of North American readers of all ages for the rare portrait it paints of a vibrant, happy, bourgeois Ivory Coast in the 1970s, based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. Not only is Aya complemented with ClÃ©ment Oubrerie's gorgeous artwork, but the volumes also offer a slice-of-life peek into African culture: complete with recipes, glossaries, and wardrobe instructions for turning one's pagne (brightly colored fabric) into a skirt, head wrap, or baby carrier. Engaging and fun, the universal stories in Aya pro... + Read More
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Series: Moomin Moomin Book Four The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Hardcover Tove Jansson 9781897299784 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 5 May 26, 2009

More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artistDrawn & Quarterly's bestselling Moomin series, created by the legendary children's author Tove Jansson, is now in its fourth installment. The series is the winner of the Harvey Award and has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards.
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Series: Moomin The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My Hardcover Tove Jansson 9781897299951 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 10 Oct 13, 2009

In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moomintroll meets Mymble, who has lost her sister, Little My. Along the way, they endure the hijinks of all the charming characters of the Moomin world, including the Fillijonks and Hattifatteners. Will Moomintroll ever make it home safe and sound?A beautiful and boisterous story by internationally acclaimed children's author Tove Jansson, this picture book is sure to tic... + Read More
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Series: John Stanley Library Nancy: Volume 2 The John Stanley Library Hardcover John Stanley 9781897299968 $31.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Aug 03, 2010

Designed by Seth, more children's comic fun from the writer of Little LuluThe second volume of Nancy in D+Q's John Stanley Library, elegantly designed by Seth, stars the beloved Brillo-headed Nancy in her own comic book series written by the greatest children's comics writer of all time, John Stanley. Stanley, the author of Melvin Monster, Little Lulu, and Thirteen Going on Eighteen, puts his own deft sense of humor and superior cartooning on the Ernie Bushmiller creation with spooky Oona Goosepimple, Spike, and Mr.McOnion. Nancy, along with he... + Read More
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Series: Moomin Moomin Book Five The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Hardcover Tove Jansson 9781897299944 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 5 Jul 20, 2010

The final volume in the series drawn by Tove Jansson Moomin Book Five: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the London Evening News, before Lars took over both the art and the writing. The first "Moomin Winter" returns with more unwanted guests than in Book One, especially the curious and secret-spilling Nibling, sending the Moomin household into a tizzy of secrecy and closed doors. In "Moomin Under Sail," theMoomins find themselves without a new adventure unti... + Read More
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Series: Good-Bye Hardcover Yoshihiro Tatsumi 9781897299371 $26.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 24, 2008

"Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing."-Los Angeles TimesGood-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual "top 10" lists, including those compiled by Amazon and Time.com. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the prolific artist's vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan.Some of the tales ... + Read More
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Series: Gentleman Jim Hardcover Raymond Briggs 9781897299364 $14.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 08, 2008

A graphic novel classic from one of the world's best-known cartoonistsGentleman Jim is the story of Jim Bloggs, an imaginative toilet cleaner who, dissatisfied with his station in life, devotes his time to envisioning a world beyond it. His walls are lined with books like Out in the Silver West, The Boys' Book of Pirates, and Executive Opportunities, which provide fodder for his ruminations on career change. Encouraged by his wife, who is also eager to incorporate more adventure into her life, Jim sets out to bring these dreams to fruition by a... + Read More
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Series: What It Is Hardcover Lynda Barry 9781897299357 $27.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 13, 2008

"Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+" -SalonHow do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wis... + Read More
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Series: Against Pain Hardcover Ron Rege 9781897299296 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 16, 2008

Short stories from the radiant "cute-brut" world of a truly remarkable artistAgainst Pain is the first collection of multipage anthology pieces by Ron RegÃ©, Jr. The storytelling side of his expressive work is featured in these comic strips gathered from McSweeney's, The New York Times, Kramers Ergot, NON, Rosetta, Arthur, The Comics Journal, and Drawn & Quarterly's anthology. Suicide bombers, art appreciation, a Lynda Barry "cover," and even a Tylenol-sponsored comic about pain are brought together under the theme of suffering andhow people co... + Read More
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Series: Paul Goes Fishing Paperback Michel Rabagliati 9781897299289 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 18, 2008

"Free of self-loathing . . . [Rabagliati's] black-and-whie panels eschew half-tones for a spirited line." —Voice Literary SupplementThis fourth installment in Michel Rabagliati's semiautobiographical series finds Paul settling comfortably into adult life, occasional twinges of anxiety aside. His graphic design business has taken off, his partner, Lucie, is pregnant, it's mid-July and time to leave behind the city to go fishing. Long lazy days stretch out while Paul's thoughts wander from the colorful characters at the fish-and-game camp to thel... + Read More
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Series: Pyongyang A Journey in North Korea Paperback Guy Delisle 9781897299210 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2007

The perennial graphic novel about a “hermit country,” with a new cover and an introduction by Gore VerbinskiGuy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for more than ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country when he was working in animation for a French company.While living in the nation’s capital for two months on a work visa, Delisle observed everything he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the f... + Read More
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Series: Moomin Moomin Book Two The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Hardcover Tove Jansson 9781897299197 $27.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 30, 2007

In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive... + Read More
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Series: Acme Novelty Library Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two 1995 - Present Hardcover Chris Ware 9781897299180 $42.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 10, 2007

Straggling behind the mild 2003 success of cartoonist Chris Ware's first facsimile collection of his miscellaneous sketches, notes, and adolescent fantasies arrives this second volume, updating weary readers with Ware's clichÃ©d and outmoded insights from the late twentieth century.Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sensitive and personally incriminating material from his private journals, carefully recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an... + Read More
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Series: Shortcomings Hardcover Adrian Tomine 9781897299166 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 02, 2007

FROM THE PREEMINENT CARTOONIST OF HIS GENERATION, THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2007Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. A frequent cont... + Read More
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Series: 365 Days A Diary by Julie Doucet Hardcover Julie Doucet 9781897299159 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 08, 2008

A year in the life of a world-renowned artistDespite Julie Doucet's renunciation of her comics-centric lifestyle more than five years ago, 365 Days is imbued with the iconic talent and studied aesthetic of her seminal comic book series Dirty Plotte, which catapulted her into being one of the world's greatest cartoonists. This visual journal, starting in late 2002, is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage, and drawing begin to tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, ... + Read More
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Series: Spent Hardcover Joe Matt 9781897299111 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 10, 2007

Spent by Joe MattMeet the original antihero Joe Matt: a master of a domain that includes more than twenty-three self-edited eight-hour-long videotapes of bootlegged pornography; a penny-pincher who never fails to make a dime off his friends; a chronic masturbator who doesn't understand why he never has a girlfriend; an obsessive collector frantically searching for the toys of his childhood; a callous son who throws out every gift his adoring mother gives him; a man so lazy that he urinates in a bottle rather than walk to the bathroom.Everyone a... + Read More
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Series: Dogs and Water Hardcover Anders Nilsen 9781897299081 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 12, 2013

Dogs and Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger, and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with instinct, the drive for survival, and human ethics concerning the killed and injured. He finds acceptance with a pack of dogs, though their nature is wild and the... + Read More
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Series: My Most Secret Desire Hardcover Julie Doucet 9781896597959 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 13, 2006

"One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists." —Charles McGrath, The New York Times MagazineConsidered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a five-year hiatus with... + Read More
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Series: Wimbledon Green The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World Hardcover Seth 9781896597935 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 13, 2005

From the critically acclaimed cartoonist of Clyde Fans and It's A Good Life comes a humorous graphic novel on the obsession of comic-book collecting.Taking a break from the serialization of his saga Clyde Fans and the design of The Complete Peanuts, critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Seth creates a farcical world of the people whose passion lies in the need to own comic books and only in pristine, mint condition.Meet Wimbledon Green, the self-proclaimed world's greatest comic-book collector who brokered the world's best comic-book ... + Read More
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Series: War's End Profiles From Bosnia 1995-1996 Hardcover Joe Sacco 9781896597928 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 15, 2005

War cartoonist Joe Sacco visits the Bosnian conflict to uncover the stories that are often ignored or uncovered by traditional media.How does an artist reconcile being forced to go to the front line of a brutal conflict that will change his life and homeland forever? What happens when a reporter finally comes face-to-face with an evil war criminal? Before his groundbreaking graphic novels Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer, Palestinian author Joe Sacco created two short stories with characters from each side of the crossfire. Collected for the fir... + Read More
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Series: The Frank Ritza Papers Paperback David Collier 9781896597911 $25.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 15, 2004

Cult cartoonist David Collier has fans such as Chris Ware, R. Crumb and Joe Sacco patiently waiting for his next comic. This new 192 page Collier trade paperback will deliver all expectations and beyond with a quirky collection of stories about his family, living life in the army and the search for information on a local artist he discovers, Frank Ritza. Along with the story, Collier provides over 100 sketch book pages from London, Los Angeles and Saskatchewan. This book is a natural companion to the entire D+Q line (especially Seth's It's a Go... + Read More
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Series: Paul Moves Out Hardcover Michel Rabagliati 9781896597874 $25.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 15, 2005

Michel Rabagliati delivers another charming, thinly veiled memoir.Michel Rabagliati crafts stories that are easily accessible to both young-adult and adult audiences with his semifictional protagonist, Paul. In Paul Moves Out he takes another step into adulthood by moving out of his parents' house and into his first apartment with his girlfriend, enjoying life's pleasures as well as confronting its challenges.
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Series: Clyde Fans Book-1 Hardcover Seth 9781896597843 $26.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 15, 2004

A compelling look at the life of two electric fan salesman, both brothers, by master cartoonist Seth. Clyde Fans promises to be one of the major graphic novel achievements of recent years. Seth is fast becoming one of the most recognized talents in the field since Chris Ware. Book One of this trilogy focuses on the lives of two brothers and their fan manufacturing company. After one more disastrous attempt at selling, Simon returns to the office defeated and unsure of what he'll do next. Even after studying manuals on the art of selling, he sti... + Read More
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Series: My New York Diary Paperback Julie Doucet 9781896597836 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 15, 2011

THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINTBack in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In My New York Diary - one of the first contemporary graphic novels - Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.
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Series: Get a Life Hardcover Philippe Dupuy 9781896597799 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 11, 2006

A celebration of the sophistication, wit and charm found only in the singular collaboration of French cartooning teamFor twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have collaborated on every aspect—sharing both the writing and drawing—of their highly acclaimed Mr. Jean short stories, creating one of the most endearing, clever, and readable series in contemporary French comics. Their award-winning, critically acclaimed series has sold more than 120,000 copies in France and has won one of comics' most coveted awards, th... + Read More
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Series: Scrapbook Uncollected Work, 1990-2004 Paperback Adrian Tomine 9781896597775 $36.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 01, 2004

The ultimate collection by one of the most recognized talents in graphic novels: includes over a decade of comics and illustrations by the still-under-30 Adrian Tomine, from Pulse to The New Yorker and Esquire, collected together for the first time in one sharply-designed book.Scrapbook is the first comprehensive Adrian Tomnie collection. here you'll find the complete run of strips which was originally published in Tower Records' Pulse Magazine which Adrian started when he was only 17, along with comics originally published in Details and a hos... + Read More
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Series: Perfect Example Paperback John Porcellino 9781896597751 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 15, 2005

A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiar Road trips, drunken concerts, and late-night make-out sessions all swirl together in this coming-of-age graphic novel by King Cat cartoonist John Porcellino. Tackling the pain and uncertainty of the pivotal summer before college, Porcellino's sad and beautiful story is drawn in his sincere, minimalist style. Deceptively and charmingly simple, Perfect Example is a collection of Porcellino's self-published King Cat comics, which have won over thousands of readers with their honesty, empathy, ... + Read More
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Series: It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken A Picture Novella Paperback Seth 9781896597706 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 01, 2003

An Acknowledged Classic returns gorgeously re-designed.In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken–one of the best-selling D & Q titles ever–Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his dissatisfaction with the present, Seth discovers the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s. But his obsession blinds him to the needs of his lover and the quiet desperation of his family. Wry self-reflection and moody colours characteri... + Read More
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Series: Acme Novelty Library Acme Novelty Datebook, Volume One Hardcover Chris Ware 9781896597669 $44.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 26, 2013

Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan --one of the great crossover success stories-- as a tremendous art collection from of one of America's most interesting and... + Read More
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Series: Walt and Skeezix Walt and Skeezix: Book One, 1921 & 1922 The Complete Daily Strips; Book One Hardcover Frank King 9781896597645 $39.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 15, 2005

Walt & Skeezix is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, and Book One is the beginning of a handsome multivolume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris WareChris Ware has often cited Gasoline Alley as one of his favorite comic strips ever, and he has lovingly edited and designed Walt & Skeezix: Book One, the first-ever collection of the classic newspaper strip created by one of the pioneering giants of American comic strips, Frank King. Not only does this volume reprint the first ... + Read More
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Series: Summer Blonde (stories) Paperback Adrian Tomine 9781896597577 $16.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Aug 01, 2003

Adrian Tomine's cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover graphic novel. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane lifestyles, Tomine's fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on their most intimate moments and, with forensic skill, laying their lives bare. The conflicts between emotional gratification, narcissistic neediness and moral discernmen... + Read More
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Series: Paul Has a Summer Job Paperback Michel Rabagliati 9781896597546 $26.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2003

Rabagliati`s strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999`s Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country won the 2000 Harvey award for Best New Talent. This, his first graphic novel, is eagerly anticipated by comix connoisseurs who enjoy a sweet, unsentimental story about being a teenager and Rabagliati's crisp retro-modern 1950s drawing style. Paul Has a Summer Job continues the story of Paul, a Quebecois teenager in the 1970s, as he experiences the first conflicts of responsibility with h... + Read More
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Series: The Poor Bastard Paperback Joe Matt 9781896597447 $17.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 26, 2004

This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable obsession with pornography...this poor bastard has serious problems, yet unlike the rest of us, he works them out in full public view, allowing us to get closer to him...maybe a little too close!
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Series: Berlin Berlin Book One City of Stones Paperback Jason Lutes 9781896597294 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2002

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.
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Series: Maybe Later Hardcover Charles Berberian 9781896597218 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 25, 2006

An inside look at France's superstar cartooning teamMaybe Later sees Dupuy & Berberian working separately for the first time, each cartoonist taking turns to tell the behind-the-scenes "making of" their bestselling Mr. Jean series. In fluid black-and-white, with hilariously paranoid digressions and surreal dream sequences, Maybe Later is a record of their unique artistic partnership, midlife and its demons, the stress of deadlines, and the friends and colleagues who help and goad along the way. Above all, it's about the creative process, with a... + Read More
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Series: We Are on Our Own A memoir Hardcover Miriam Katin 9781896597201 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 16, 2006

A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faithIn this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching, Katin and her mother are forced to flee to the countryside after faking their deaths. Leaving behind all of their belongings and loved ones, andunable to tell anyone of the... + Read More
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Series: I Never Liked You A Comic-Strip Narrrative Paperback Chester Brown 9781896597140 $16.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 26, 2004

In one of the best graphic novels published in recent years, Chester Brown tells the story of his alienated youth in an almost detached, understated manner, giving I Never Liked You an eerie, dream-like quality. For the new 2002 definitive softcover edition Brown has designed new layouts for the entire book, using "white" panel backgrounds instead of the black pages of the first edition.
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Series: The Little Man Short Strips, 1980-1995 Paperback Chester Brown 9781896597133 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 15, 2006

"One of the medium's brilliant mavericks." —Time.comThe Little Man: Short Strips, 1980–1995 is a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to his later autobiographical and essay strips, we see not a major talent in development but a fully realized storytelling virtuoso. Included are his early autobiographical stories "Helder" (a story about a young man's tentativeness when pursuing a woman), "Showing Helder" (a blow-by-blow account of th... + Read More
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Series: Sleepwalk and Other Stories Paperback Adrian Tomine 9781896597126 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jun 01, 2004

Collecting the first four issues of Adrian Tomine's acclaimed comic series optic nerve, this book offers sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper into their lives, subtly examining their struggle to connect with friends and lovers.
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Series: 32 Stories The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics Paperback Adrian Tomine 9781896597003 $18.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2002

In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace: the artwork and writing evolved with each story, production quality improved, page counts increased, and by issue seven, sales had reached 6,000. In 1994, Drawn & Quarterly took over the publishing duties of Optic Nerve, and the original seven issues so... + Read More
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Series: King-Cat Classix Hardcover John Porcellino 9781894937917 $33.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2007

The definitive collection of the influential comic zineJohn Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early '90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuses on the smallest of details, revealing a wealth of meaning and emotion in everyday events that most of us overlook in our daily hustle and bustle. Since 1989, he has released more than sixty-five issues of his self-published comic King-Cat Comics and Stories. This large collection focuses on the first ... + Read More
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Series: Louis Riel A Comic-Strip Biography Paperback Chester Brown 9781894937894 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 15, 2006

"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." –TimeChester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century MÃ©tis leader. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who di... + Read More